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Escribano -> RE: Peg Head (Feb. 2 2010 3:52:46)
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Do the peg head designs have any advantages/disadvantages over regular heads or is it just an aesthetic.
Better tuning stability, easier string changes, tone etc...?
I enclose a relevant transcript from my documentary about Anders:
What's the difference, apart from the obvious difference, between pegs and the mechanical tuners?
Two things. Aesthetics and sound
Aesthetics? Well this is obvious
I personally think they are very beautiful
Pegheads. I used to play the violin so I've got this thing with pegs.
And soundwise, especially on blancas
They give a drier, faster responding guitar
They're lighter, you've got the...
The string tension is going directly into the headstock and not passing through some wormed gear
So they make the guitar sound brighter?
I wouldn't call it brighter. I would just call it drier... there's less weight, less sustain
There's less weight in the headstock. Weight in the headstock means sustain
Everything up here which weighs, means sustain
Because it vibrates from the strings
and when a mass or something heavy vibrates
it makes the string vibrate for a longer time
So it [less weight] gives less sustain
I think a lot of people choose pegs for their looks
Me as well
Some people, they choose it because when you sit in the traditional flamenco position
The guitar is lighter
And it just feels right
Because in all the pictures of Niño Ricardo and Sabicas and stuff like that
They were always playing pegheads
They obviously were first in construction?
Yes, yes, of course but you continued using pegs for a long time on flamenco guitars
Because of money. Because the machine tuners, they were expensive at first
I guess you could repair pegs as well?
Of course
You can just simply throw them out and put some new ones in... and what I do now
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